Skate.



W. P. KERRIGAN.

SKATE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2. 1919.

1,319,094, Pzi tented Oct. 21,1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

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SKATE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 2.1919.

1,319,094. Patented Oct. 21,1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- ATTORNEY or racing skate embodying UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM P. KERRIGAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 2, 1919. Serial No. 269,185.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. KERRI- GAN, a citizen of the United States of America,.residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which the'following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in skates, the object being to provide a combination of parts, which may be termed a skating set or equipment, a part of which consists of a relatively long runner for hockey or racing, a runnerfor fancy skating, and a frame carrying rollers for rollerskating. The remainder of the set consists of a heel-plate and a toe-plate arranged to be attached to either the hockey-skate runner, the fancy-skating'runner or the frameof the roller-skate; in fact the plates'are arranged for interchangeable connection to the several runners and frame of the rollerskate.

To gain the above results, I provide the runners and frame of the roller-skate with similar supporting elements to be engaged by the brackets carried by the above named heel and toe-plates.

An embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

' wherein Figure 1 illustrates a side view of a hockey my invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustratin my invention embodied in a skate for fancy skating;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view, the section being taken on a line 33 in Fig. 1, the shoe being omitted; I

Fig. 4 is a similar view, taken on a line 4-4; in Fig. 2, the heelplate bracket being broken away Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective detail view of the brace for the toe-plate when said plate is applied to a hockey skate runner;

Fig. 6 is a perspective detail view of a toeguard which forms part of my improvement; Fig. 7 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional View thereof;

Fig. 8 is a'fragmentary sectional view,

partly in elevation, illustrating the manner of attaching the toe-guard to the toe-plate;

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary front view illustrating the brackets carried by the toe-plate;

Fig. 10 is-a side elevation of a roller skate embodying my improvement;

Fig. 11 is an enlarged cross-sectional view, the section being taken on a line 1111 in Fig. 10;

Fig. 12 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view illustrating one end of the roller or wheel bracket supports;

Fig. 13 is a similar view tubular portion of the frame of the roller skate; and

Fig. 14 is an enlarged fragmentary view, partly in section, illustrating the manner of connecting the tubular portion of the frame and the wheel bracket support.

Referring to Fig. 1, which illustrates a hockey-skate made according to my im provement, a runner is indicated by 10, having a substantially cylindrical tubular rail 11 provided with flanges 12 which in turn are riveted to the runner at 13. The rail 11 is made tubular for the sake of lightness. At certain points the runner 10 and flanges 12 are provided with openings for the passage of securing bolts, said openings being indicated by 14 in Fig. 3. The bolts, indicated by 15, act to secure the heel-bracket 16 and toe-bracket 1-7 in position on the runner, said heel-bracket 16 carrying a heelplate 18 and the bracket 17 a toe-plate 19. This form of skate is usually permanently secured to a shoe, indicated by 20, by means of rivets (not shown). In this form of skate, I provide a brace 21 extending from the front end of the toe-plate to the runner. The upper end of the brace 21 is remo ably secured to the toe plate by means of a bolt 22, which passes through brackets 23, between which the upper end of the brace 21 is located (see Fig. 9). The lower end of the brace 21 carries a clamp-member 24 similar to the clamp-member 25 and 26 of the brackets 16 and 17, respectively, toen-- toe-guard 28 consists of .a bar 29 slightly curved downwardly at its forward end, as at 30, said curved end having a slot 31 to provide a jaw to engage the runner 10. The opposite end of the bar 29 carries a resilient tongue 32, the projecting end of which lies between the sole of the shoe 20 and the toeplate 19 (see Fig. 8). The tongue is not secured to the toe plate, but merely lies between said plate and the sole of the shoe secured to said plate; hence is free to move sidewise. The purpose of the toe guard is to prevent injury to others by the skater. It

prevents the sharp nose of the skate from cutting the body of a fallen person or the limbs of other skaters. Any obstruction encountered by the skate will come in contact with the guard and not the sharp edge or end of the skate. As the guard is unattached to the runner it may be knocked thereofi' by a heavy blow and also sidewise, as the tongue 32 thereof is slidably frictionally held in position between the toe-plate of the skate and the-shoe. This arrangement prevents the breaking or bending of the guard. The toe-guard 28 is preferably made out of tubular stock having the resilient tongue held therein by a block or wedge 33 (see Fig. 7 r

To form a skate for figure or fancy skating, I provide a runner 34, somewhat shorter than the runner 10, said runner be ing curved upwardly at 35. To connect the brackets 16 and 17 to this form of runner,

I provide'same with substantially cylindrical supporting members-36 and 37 to be engaged by the clamping members 25 and 26 of the brackets 16 and 17. In this form of skate I dispense with the brace 21 and connect the turned up end 35 of the runner to the toe-plate, which engages the brackets 23 thereon, being the same brackets that engage the upper end of the brace 21 in the other form of skate. The roller skate portion of the combination consists of a frame having a tubular portion or member 38 and roller or wheel bracket supporting members 39 and 40 which are preferably solid having plug portions 41 to be slipped into the tubular member 38 at its ends, as indicated in Fig. 14. This structure provides a rigid frame combined with lightness; in fact the object of this structure is to produce a light but rigid frame. The wheel brackets, indicated by 42, may be of any desirable construction, this partof my invention being immaterial. The heel and toeplates 1S and ,19 are the same as employed to provide the before mentioned hockey and figure skates, together With their brackets 16 and 17, respectively;

As the tubular portion 38 of the rollerskate corresponds to the tubular portion 11 of the hockey skate, the brackets 16 and 17 may be slipped thereon and secured by bolts 42. The bolts 42 not only serve to secure the brackets 16 and 17 to the tubular framemember 38, but also serve to secure the wheel-bracket supports 39 and 40 in place in the member 38. As can be seen in Fig. 11, the bolts 42 pass through the flanges of the tubular member 38, the web 43 of the members 40 and 41 and flanges of the brackets 16 and 17. IVhen the bracket 17 is applied to the roller skate frame, the brackets 23 on the toe-plate 19 will engage and be secured to the outer end of the frame member 40 by a bolt 43. When the bracket 16 is applied to the roller-skate, the brackets 44 thereon will engage and be secured to the post 45 on the frame member 39 by a bolt 46. To apply or remove brackets 16 and 17 the frame members 39 and 40 will be'removed, that is to say, to remove said brackets the bolts 42, 43 and 46 will be removed; the members 39 and 40 will now be removed from the framemember 38, after which the brackets 16 and 17 can he slipped off. To apply the said brackets, the reverse of the above operation will be erformed.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I am able to produce a variety of different styles of skates by merely applying the brackets 16 and 17 to the runner of the ice-skate desired, or to the frame of the roller-skate which is formed in conformity with that part of the ice-skate runners which is engaged by the heel and toe-plate brackets.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a skate, a runner, a heel-plate removably secured to said runner, a toe-plate also removably secured to said runner, and a brace connecting the forward end of the toe-plate and said runner, said brace being removably secured to said toe-plate and the runner.

2. In a skate, a runner, a cylindrical support carried by the runner extending along the upper edge thereof, a heel-plate, a bracket carried thereby to removably engage said support, means to secure said bracket to the support, a toe-plate, a bracket carried thereby to engage said support, and means to secure the last named bracket to said support. 7

3. In a skate, a runner, a toe-plate carried thereby, a heel-plate also carried by said runner, and a toe-guard extending from the front edge of said toe-plate to the adjacent end of said runner, said toe-guard being yieldably connected to--fthe toe-plate and connected for displacement with said runnor.

4. In combination with a shoe, a skate secured thereto, consisting of a runner, a heel-plate and. a toe-plate, a toe-guard consisting of a bar extending from the front edge of the runner to the frontend of the toe' plate, and a resilient tongue carried by said bar located between the said toe-plate and the shoe.

5. In combination with a shoe, a skate secured thereto, consisting of a runner, a heelplate and a toe-plate, a toe-guard consisting of a bar extending from the front edge of the runner to the front end of the toe-plate, and a resilient tongue carried by said bar located between the said t0eplate and the. shoe, said bar being connected to said runner in a manner to cause its disengagement therefrom when struck a sidewise blow.

resilient tongue at the other end thereof arranged for insertion between the toe-plate of a skate and a shoe.

7. A toe-plate for a skate, means carried thereby to releasably engage a runner, a.

bracket carried by the toe-plate to removably engage the curved end of a runner for fancy skating, or a brace for the runner of a hockey-skate.

S. An equipment for skating consisting of a relatively long runner for hockey or speed skating, a relatively short runner, having an upwardly curved front end for fancy skating, a lieel plate adapted for releasable attachment to either of said riuiners, and a toe-plate also adapted for releasable attachment to either ofsaid runners.

9. In a skate, a runner, a toe-plate, and a toe-guard connected at one end to the toeplate, the other end of the said guard being connected to the runner at its forward end but not secured thereto.

Signed at New York city, .N. Y., this 28 day of December, 1918.

\VILLIAM P. KERRIGAN. Vitnesses EDWARD A. J ARVIS, MAURICE BLOCK. 

